[Photo] Harpoon anti-ship missile fired by P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft hits target

July 10, 2013 Weapons
David Cenciotti

On Jun. 24, a P-8A Poseidon from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 successfully fired a Harpoon AGM-84D Block IC missile at the Navy’s Point Mugu Sea Test Range in California and scored a direct hit on a Low Cost Modular Target.

The following image shows the target before and after the hit by “one of the U.S. Navy’s most dependable over-the-horizon all-weather anti-ship missiles, the Harpoon Block IC.”

Harpoon

Image credit: U.S. Navy

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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4 Comments

  1. How tall are those Low Cost Modular Targets ? The missile seems to hit too high for a shp

    • That pontoon boat may be abut 20 feet long, and low to the water. Compared to the length and height of a warship, it could be a suitable target to simulate the side of a ship.

      The pontoon boat may be smaller than 20 ft. also, we can’t see the scale.

  2. Bullseye! that works then. What happens to the missile afterwards? do they pick it up from the water?

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